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THE SEMI-WEEKLY SUMTER REPUBLICAN. ESTABLISHED IN 1854, By CHAS. W. HANCOCK. VOL. 18. The Sumter Republican. Semi-Weekly, One Year - - - 00 Weely, One Year - - - - - 2.00 in Advance, fn All advertisements eminating from public flices will be charged for in accordance with an act passed by the late General Assembly of Georgia—7s cents per hundred words for each of the first four insertions, and 35 cents for each subsequent insertion. Fractional parts of one hundred are considered one hundred words; each figure and initial, with date and signature, is counted as a word. The cash must accompany the copy of each advertisement, unless different arrange ments have been made. Advertising Rates. One Square first insertion, - - - - SI.OO Each subsequent insertion, - - - - 50 ®“Ten Lines of Minion, type solid con stitute a square. All advertisements not contracted for will be charged above rates. Advertisements not specifying the length of time for which they are to be inserted will be continued until ordered out and charged for accordingly. Advertisements tooccupy fixed places will be charged 25 per cent, above regular rates Notices in local column inserted for teD cent per line each insertion. Charles F. Crisp, •Ittorney at Law* AMERICUS, GA. dec!6tf B. P. HOLLIS, Attorney at Law* A3IEKICUS, GA. Office, Forsyth Street, in National Bank building. dec2otf ~E. G SIMMONS, Attorney at Law* AMERICUS GA., Office in Hawkins’building, south side of Lamar Street, in the old office of Fort* Simmons. janfitf J. A. ANBLEY, ATTORNEY AT LAW AND SOLICITOR IN EQUITY, Office on Public Square, Ovf,r Gyles’ Clothing Store, Amekicus, Ga. Aftor a brief respite I return again to the practice ol' law. As in the past it will be my earnest purpose to represent my clients faithfully and look to their interests. The commercial practice will receive close atten tion and remittances promptly made. The Equity practice, and cases involving titles of land and real estate are my favorites. Will practice in the Courts of Southwest Georgia, the Supreme Court and the United States Courts. Thankful to my friends for their patronage. Fees moderate. novlltf “cardT I offer my professional services again to the good people of Americus. After thirty years’ of medical service, I have found It difficult to withdraw entirely. Office next door to Dr. Eldridge’s drugstore, on the Square janl7tf R. O. BLACK, M. D. A. FORT, Physician and Surgeon. Offers his professional services to the people of Americus and vicinity. Office at Dr. Eldridge’s Drug Store. At night can be found at residence on Furlow’s lawn. Calls will receive prompt attention. may26-tf Or. D P. HOLLOWAY, DentisT, Americua. ... Georgia Treatssuccessfully all diseases of the Den tal organs. Fills teeth by the improved method, and inserts artificial teeth on the best material known to the profession, over Davenport and Son’s Drug Store. marllt J. B. C. Smith & Sons, (MAM Mil IMIIEIIS, Americus, Ga. tVe are prepared to do any kind of work in the carpenter line at short notice and on reasonable terms. Having had years of ex perience in the business, we feel competent to give satisfaction. All orders for con tracts for building will receive prompt at tention. Jobbing promptly attended to. may26-3m Commercial Bar. This well-established house will be kept in the same first-class style that has always characterized it. The Choicest Liquor and Cigars, Milwaukee, Budweiser and Aurora Beer, constantly on hand, and all the best brands of fine Brandies, Wines, &c. Good Billiard Tables for the accommodation of customers. may9tf JOHN W. COTNEY, Clerk. Commercial Hotel, G. M. HAY, Proprietor. This popular House is quite new and handsomely furnished with new furniture, bedding and all other articles. It is in the centre of the business portion of the city, convenient to depot, the banks, warehouses, &c., and enjoys a fine reputation, second to none, among its permanent and transient guests, on account of the excellence of its cuisine. Table Boarders Accommodated on Reasonable Terms. may9-tf G. M. HAY, Proprietor. ELAM JOHNSON, JOHN W. M’rHERSON, STEVE H. JOHNSON, JAMES B. WILBANKS. EIAM JOHNSON, SON & CO., WHOLESALE HKffit WUSIH HUMS —DEALERS IN— TOBACCO AND CIGARS. FOREIGN and DOMESTIC FRUITS, Veg etables and Melons In Season. BUT TER, CHICKENS and EGGS, SWEET and IRISH Potatoes. Consignment* and Order* Solicited. 12 Decatur and 13 Line Sts., P. O. Box 515. 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COUNCIL & WILLIFORD, Proprietors Georgia Warehouse, Northeast Corner Public Square, AMERICUS, - - - GEORGJA. Having leased the New Brick Warehouse, on Troup Street, we invile a share of the patronage of tho cotton planters of this and surrounding counties. Our facilities for storage are ample, our warehouso secure against lire, our advantages for showing and sampling cotton fine, while our advan tages for unloading are not equaled. tgT’We are also agents for the celebrated WINSHIP GINS. julyistf. DIVORCES— No publicity; residents of Desertion, Non-Support. Advice and applications for stamps. W. H. LEE, Att’y, 23!) B’way, N. Y. ADVERTISERS By addressing EO. P. rowell a co„ 10 Spruce St., New York, can learn the ex act cost of any proposed line of ADVER TISING in American Newspapers. tSTIOO page Pamphlet, 25c. july4 INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS, AND DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND GENERAL PROGRESS, AMERICUS, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, LBB3. s e.v.i.l v.o v ft. How Tildy Drove the Cows Home •‘Where is that boy ’Bimelech?” said Aunt Huldah, in an aggrieved tone “There ain’t a chore done, and the white turkey has gone across the field to steal her nest again, and the guinea-pigs are squealing for their sup per enough to deafen you, and the wood wantin’ to he chopped, and Jonas gone to see his mother. Why he couldn’t have a mother livin’ in this town instead of ten miles off I don’t see; hut hired men have no considera tion for ether people, any more than boys have. I should like to know who is going for the cows?” Aunt Huldah was a little cross, but then—poor woman!—she had had a hard time to manage the farm and make both ends meet since Uncle Joshua died. And although she did scold sometimes, she was very kind to ’Bimelech and Tildy. “I will go and bring home the cows,” said Tildy. “I can ride Lightning bare-backed. I have done it ever so many times.” “! don’t think poor old Lightning will ever run away with anybody,” said Aunt Huldah. “But it’s hard work for you to take down the bars and put them tip again. I don’t be lieve in girls doing such things, when it’s what boys are for. But there’s no telling what time that boy'll be home. Perhaps you may as well go. And you’d better hurry, for it’s a lonesome road, and it will be dark before long.” Tildy had old lightning out of his stall and was on his back in a twink ling. But there was no such thing as hurrying old Lightning. He knew as well as Tildy did that they were only going for the cows, and he didn’t mean to huiry his stiff old bones on any such commonplace occasion. It was a long time ago that Lightning had earned his name. Jonas, the hired man, said he was “slower than stock-still” now. Tildy broke off a beech switch, and tried that as a persuader. She did want to get the cows home in good time, so that Aunt Hnldali need not think too much about ’Bimelech’s ab sence. lie had a bright new half dollar that he had earned by picking berries, and there was a circus over at Cranberry Center. Tildy didn’t know that ho had gone there, but she was pretty well acquainted with boys. You couldn’t have ’Bimelech for a brother without being. Instead of having his pace quickened by the beech switch, Lightning, not being accustomed to such things, stop ped short, and turned his head around to look at it. Then he twiched it out of Tildy’s hand serenely munched the green leaves. After that Tildy returned to moral suasion, and told him how important it was to have the cows milked, and the milk taken care of at the proper time, for of the cream was to be made Aunt Huldah’s goldenest, sweetest, fragrant est butter, that was expected to take a prize at the Agricultural Fair, and out of the prize money Aunt Huldah had promised to buy her, (Tildy,) anew cambric dress—bright blue with tiny spots—to wear to the Sunday-school picnic. I can’t say that old Lightning was touched by these arguments, but he did begin to go a little faster, and before Tildy had fairly decided what color to have the hat trimmed with which Aunt Huldali might have money enough to buy her, to go with the dress, she had reached the pasture. Instead of being close beside the bars as they usually were at night, the cows were huddled together in a distant cor ner of the field, as if they were fright ened, and suddenly as she stopped at the bars, she began to shiver and pant with terror. “What can it possibly mean?” said Tildy, aloud. Hut before the words were out of her mouth her heart seem ed to have stopped beating. From be hind a clump of busheß there suddenly appeared a huge shaggy brown creat ure, that walked with a lumbering gait straight toward her. Tildy knew in a moment that it was a bear. ’Bimelech was very fond of natural history and knew as much about animals as the school-master himself, and he was always showing pictures oi animals to Tildy and explaining all about them. A boar he certainly was, and a big one, but how he could have got there was a question. Since the days of her great grandiatlier Tildy knew no bears had been seen about there. She bad not much time to think, however, for Lightning, quivering in every limb, dashed over the fence— Lightning, who had not leaped a fence tot twenty years!—and with Tildy clinging lor dear life to his neck, went on a dead run across the pasture, over a stone wall on the other side, through the brook, and half-way up the hill, where he stopped exhausted. Tildy slipped down to the ground. She thought the bear, at that distance, was preferable to Lightning in his pres ent state, which might lead him to daßh off again at any moment, for Lightning’s terror had not abated. He was only exhausted. Tildy thought of the cows with a dreadful sinking of the heart and look ed about her for help. But there was not a house or a person in sight. She stole softly down to the stone wall, as if she expected the bear to ap pear from behind any bush by the way, and peeped over. The cows were still huddled together in a distant corner of the pasture. Against the bars she could see the huge outline of the bear. Could a bear climb a fence? Tildy had forgotten the teachings of ’Bime lech’s natural history books od that subject, but she thought it more than probable that he could. But he cer tainly did not seem to he making any attempt to do so. Slowly, and with her heart in her mouth, Tildy climbed the stone wall. She was very nimble, and she was sure she could get over it again before that unwieldly creature could reach her, and she might by some means save the cows. If she could only drive them over the stone wall She walked slowly toward the bars, armed with a large stick. The bear did not seem ferocious; per haps she could drive him away. She stopped at a respectful distance and stared at him; Bhe dared not go very near, although the bars were between her and the huge creature. As she stood gazing at him a very strange thing happened. The bear rose on his hind-feet, looked over the bars at her in a friendly fashion, and held out his paw as if for a cordial shake! This proceeding was so entirely for eign to Tildy’s previous ideas concern ing the habits of beats that she did not know what to think. But when the bear, finding his friendly overtures dis regarded, began to dance a slow and stately minuet, Tildy felt like the little old woman on the King’s highway, who cried, “O lank a-mercy on mo, this surely can’t be I.” ’Bimelech’s natural history books said nothing of this kind of a bear. He seemed to belong in a fairy book. He looked at her as if he really wish ed her to admire him. Tildy remem bered a fairy story she had read of a Prince who was turned into a deep by a wicked fairy; perhaps somebody hail been turned into this queer bear. But being a shrewd, sensible little Yankee girl, Tildy soon came to the conclusion that there must be a more practical solution of the mystery. And suddenly there flashed into her mind a story that Jonas had told of a perform ing bear he had seen at a circus. She had almost forgotten it, because she had been so much more interested in the other wonders of which Jonas told —the baby elephant, the giraffes and the talking hyena; but Jonas had said that the bear was perfectly harmless —“as gentle as a baby.” This was certainly a trained bear, and he seemed harmless. Tildy had ceased to tremble now, and she took a long look at him. He was muzzled! Tildy’s courage arose with astonishing suddenness. It was not easy to be lieve in the gcntlenees of a bear after reading those dreadful stories in ’Bime lech’s books; it was a comfort to know that this bear could not bite if he want ed to. He might hug the breath out of her body with those great shaggy paws of his, but he did not seem in the least disposed to any such violence, and Tildy began to feel as brave as a lion. “What silly cows, to be afraid of a tame creature like that, when lie didn’t try to touch them!” she exclaimed, for getting how her teeth had chatted ten minutes before. There was a collar around the bear’s neck, and from it hung a stout rope. If she only dared to take hold of the rope and lead the bear home, what a sensation she should create! thought Tildy. She extended her hand over the top bar and the bear immediately placed his paw upon it and gave it a little friendly shake. It was such a huge, shaggy paw! Tildy felt a cold chill creeping over her, but she did not flinch. He certainly was a very soci able bear. Tildy took the bars down slowly, watching him narrowly all the time. She took the rope in her hand, and he still looked at her in the mildest man ner possible. She might lead him home with safety, she thought, but she could not leave the cows behind, and their objections to the bear could not be easily overcome. Hut she resolved to try an experiment; she led him down the road out of sight, and, she hoped beyond the scent of the cows, he fol lowing her with the docility of a dog. She fastened his rope to a tree, and then went back and drove the cows out into the road. They were a little wild and unruly, being evidently still in terror of the bear, but once in the road they started on the trot for home, and Tildy brought up the rear with the bear. 'Bimelech was sitting on the door step eating apple-pic. Jonas had also returned, and was looking anxiously down the road for Tildy and the cows. Tildy and the bear wore attended by a throng of admirers. Men, women and children had rnn out of their houses, and were following the bear. “Jehoshaphat!” said .Jonas. Aunt Huldah rushed to the door, uttered a shriek and fainted at the sight. “There isn’t another girl in Ponka donk who would have dared to do that. That comes of being my sister, and knowing all about bears and things,” said ’Bimelech, with his mouth full of pie. “That’s the bear that strayed away from the circus. There are pos ters all over Cranberry Center offering ten dollars reward for his return. Won’t you be rich, Tildy? I’ll tako you to the circus, and you can pay for both.” Jonas went in search of old Light ning, and soon brought him home, looking thoroughly ashamed ot him self, and neighing humbly to Tildy. ’Bimelech carried the hear over to Cranberry Center to his owners that very night—although Tildy felt very sorry to part with him—and brought Tildy the ten dollars. And Tildy had her new cambric dress and the prettiest hat in Ponkadonk, without waiting for Aunt Hnldah’s butter prize; and she bought for ’Bimelech a very big hook on natural history, full of pictures of animals and birds, and a beautiful new butter stamp for Aunt Huldah, and a gay neck-tie for Jonas. And when the circus came to Ponkadonk Tildy met her bear again, and he greeted her like an old friend. —Sophie Sweet, in Ilar pcr’t Young People. Disgusted But not Disheartened. M. Quad in Detroit Free Press There were, beginning from the hour when McClellan was attacked on the Ghickahominy, half a dozen periods during the war when Richmond was open to capture by the Fedeials, and yet it was held until events necessita ted its evacuation. There never was an hour from the time Vicksburg was first invested until Pemberton’s sur render, when there was the least chance for its capture, and yet the Federal Government made na count of life or treasure in seeking to bring it about. All military men saw, alter the war, how Richmond could have been taken, and wondered that it was not, but no one has asserted that Vicksburg should have fallen an hour before it did. The iron clad fleet could run the batteries, but with the bluffs lined with guns for miles, and field batteries posted all along the banks, a boat could effect no more at one point than another. The country back offered every advantage to an army of defense, being broken and timbered and easily fortified, and when Sherman let go of the undertak ing it was in the belief that nothing but a long seige could ever give a Fed eral General possession of the place. Other points along the river fell into Federal hands at the first attack, but Vicksburg was a Gibraltar which the Confederates were determined to hold at any cost. A DETERMINED rEOI’LE. A few families out of the many sought safety in the interior, or left the State altogether when it was realized that Vicksburg was to be attacked and defended with desperate energy, but the majority remained. Indeed, they were not prepared to go. A seige of fered scarcely more anxiety than a hur ried removal to a locality among stran gers who had enough to endure with out further burdens. As the city laces the river the only danger to he feared was from the fleet. To escape this al most every household had its cave in the bluffs. These were tunnels, hav ing their openings on the far side of the bluffs, and generally ending in a chamber after running in ten or twelve feet. Having from 50 to 500 feet of solid hill between them and the river, and the people sheltered in these caves were perfeetly safe from missiles, but the danger was in getting to them.- The Federal fleet did not send word in advance when a bombardment was to begin, and the fire was as likely to open at midnight as any hour in the day. At the first gun everybody would start up. At the second or third the non-combatants would prepare to rush to shelter, and the rush must be made with solid shot and bursting shell sounding their fearful warnings to make haste. Women and children were at times half buried or knocked down as they ran, but the deaths were few and far between. Probably the entire list would not count up a dozen names. A man rvould hardly dare attempt to compute the weight of Federal metal hurled into Vicksburg, from first to last, but he visits the place, and looks for what he may consider legitimate results, will he greatly disappointed. There are not six buildings in the city showing scars of the bombardment. Not more than two or three buildings were fired and destroyed, and the citi zens do not remember a case where any one was killed in a house. Cannon balls and pieces of shell and grape-shot were thick enough in the streets, and bullets could be picked up everywhere, yet the fire from the river, from first to last, amounted to little more than throwing away ammunition. Upon one occasion an iron-clad steamed slowly along for a distance of two miles, throwing grape into the town as fast as her guns could be fired, yet only one house was hit hard enough to leave scars. That house is there to-day, and so are hundreds of people who passed through it all, and dodged deaths so often, and in so many different forms that they came to consider themselves bullet-proof. THE CANAL. The cut-off which Gen. Williams first began across the peninsula oppo site Vicksburg and about five miles from the city was intended to isolate the post and render its defenses worth less. The length of that cut was only a mile and had things worked as inten ded Vicksburg must have surrendered or been ovacuated within a week. Wil liams could not get the waters of the Mississippi to run into his ditch. He had the advice of the best civil engi neers, but however well they under stood surveying a line of defenses they did not understand the nature of the big river. The angle at which they struck the river was incorrect. It was correct from an engineers standpoint, but the erratic nature of the current had not been considered. Therefore the diggers had the strange spectacle before them of a great river rushing past the open mouth of a ditch five feet lower than the drift-wood hurrying by and yet without enough water flowing into the cut to float a skiff. It was a matter of annoyance and chagrin, and the job was finally abandoned in disgust. GRANT TRIES HIS HAND. The two fleets had bombarded Vicks burg without serious effect, and Sher man had lost 2,000 men by attacking from the land side. Grant now con centrated at Young’s Point to try his hand on the canal. He had determined to capture Vicksburg, and this was the easiest way. Thousands of soldiers went to work with pick, wheelbarrows and spade, and a powerful dredge boat was also brought into operation at the lower end of the ditch. A bulkhead was constructed across the mouth ol the cut, and it was hopefully believed that when the spring floods came the canal would prove a grand -success. The work was begun in January and vigorously pushed until near the mid dle of March. At that time the bed of the canal was down at least eight feet in the shallowest spot, while in others it was three or four feet lower. The hard work had sent hundreds of men to the hospital and the grave, but a few more days would see the iron-clads and transports floating across the pe ninsula and flanking Vicksburg. Then came disaster. The flood in the Mis sissippi suddenly increased, the bulk head was driven in with a terrible crash, and seven feet of water went booming through the ditch with such speed that a number of the diggers were overwhelmed and all the tools lost. It was hoped that the current would scour out a deeper channel, but it simply caused a removal of all the camps in the neighborhood, filling up the swamps and then ceased running. Grant had failed just as Williams had failed. The Mississippi would run past the canal instead of into it. THE SWAN LAKE ROUTE. Grant turned from the canal to find another route, lie went seventy-five miles above Vicksburg to Lake Provi dence, intending to work down into Swan lake, Black river, Red river and so on down into the Mississippi. This would flank Vicksburg just the same, and he went at his task with a deter mination to win. If Capt. Eads were asked to-day how much money and time he would demand to open that route and send ten steamboats down, he would place the sum at hundreds of thousands and the time at months. At the very outset 5,000 men were set at work to deepen a sluggish creek six or seven miles long. It was the story of the cut offat Island No. 10ov,ragain. Trees, stumps, snags and roots were tlie constant and troublesome obstruc tions, and the men working in the mud and water and malaria were soon made sick. There was scarcely a mile of the long route free from obstructions, and Grant was beaten again He suc ceeded in passing a few craft as far as Lake Providence, and then he gave up the task. It was a route which could not float a barge unless the Mississippi remained at a high stage to furnish water. Grant was disgusted, but not dis heartened. He at once prepared fora third attempt. Striking north cf Vicksburg about 140 miles he began operations at Moon Lake. The lake discharged into Ya/.00 Pass, the pass into the Coldwater, the latter into the Tallahatchie, and this stream emptied into the Yazoo. Grant could flank everything by this route, and the North now looked upon Vicksburg as good as captured. The Mississippi poured into Moon Lake and created a heavy cur rent along the entire route, and the ad jacent country was overflowed, so that the Confederates had little show to pre vent the complete success of this grand scheme. A SUDDEN HALT. But if they could not prevent Grant from opening the route and using it, they were not to remain passive spec tators. The day that the Federals be gan operations at Moon lake the Con federates began work on the Talla hatchie, eight or ten miles above the Yallobusha. Here, at a sharp bend in the river, Fort Pemberton was erected. While the fort was hurriedly construc ted, and was nothing to boast of as a work of strength, its location and the nature of the ground on all sides made it impregnable and brought disaster to Grant’s scheme. The iron-clads were leading the way down to Tallahatchie, and nothing more serious than fusilades by conceal ed sharpshooters had been encountered when Fort Pemberton suddenly made its presence know. The Chilljcothe, a heavily armed and thick-plated iron clad moved boldly down and opened fire, supposing it to be some field work thrown up in a hurry to protect two or three light guns. In the course of half an hour the iron-clad backed out of range of the heavy guns of the fort, and later on a second gun-boat also found the fire of the fort too much for her. A force of infantry was then landed, a battery constructed as near the fort as possible, and when all was ready the gun boats and battery opened fire and continued it for hours, sometimes silen cing the Confederate guns for a time and again having plenty to do to hold their own. The gun-boats were con siderably damaged by the accurate fire, and as the infantry had no show to carry the fort by a land attack the expe dition was abandoned, and Grant had to score another failure. THE STEELE’S UAYOU ROUTE. There was jnst one more chance. Above the mouth of the Yazoo was a creek running from the Mississippi riv- I OUR DOLLARS PER ANNUM. NO. 89. er to Steele’s bayou. This bayou was connected with others, and finally with the Sunflower river. It away could be opened Haines’ bluff could be flank ed. The soldiers were again set at work to dig and saw and clear’ away, and Porter load the way with his gun boats and Sherman followed with a force of infantry. Between the bayous the streams were only wide enough to pass a steamer, and for miles the trees had to be cut away or trimmed up to get overhanging limbs out of the way. The flood had now subsided and the woods were full of Confederate sharp shooters, while every negro who could be found was set to felling trees across the streams and otherwise obstructing them. Some days the boats did not advance forty rods, and one obstruction was no sooner removed than another was encountered. Sherman’s infantry could do no more than protect the force engaged in clearing the way, and finally it could not even do that. As the ex pedition approached the Sunflower river the Confederates began obstruct ing the line of retreat with the inten tion of capturing the entile force. Success might have attended the de sign had not Sherman been re enforced and the expedition ordered to return. It had consumed weeks of time, lost many men, accomplished an immense amount of labor and without return. Haines’ Bluff was still crowned with guns and Vicksburg, was still safe and defiant. Grant had tried every way but one. That-was to move up against Pemberton’s fortifications and hang there and fight him until Vicksburg was starved into surrender. He had sought in every way to avoid the loss of life sure to attend this plan and to gave the time that a siege would con sume, but he had been baffled. He now prepared to adopt the fighting plan, and Vicksburg made ready for what was to come. A MODEL BAPTIST. WHOSE LIFE CONTArXS A LESSON OF TCNCT UALITV WORTH EMULATING. From the Christian Index. Mr. Editor: I wrote you some time ago that I had traveled a mouth in this State staying in the country every night except Saturday and Sunday, and found none that had family pray er. I have been traveling continually since then, through six counties, and after staying with several local Meth odist preachers, stewarts, etc., have at last found one man who asked me to hold family prayer and he is the only one that has asked me or held it him self. And this man belonged to the Primitive Baptist church. He is sev dhty-six years of age, has been a mem ber of the church fifty years, lived where he now lives forty-eight years, and told me he had missed only three of their regular meetings (every fourth and fifth Sunday) in forty-six years. Besides this he has attended associa tion, etc., every year. He commenced taking one of their church papers, pub lished in New York, in 1833, still takes it, and have nearly every paper receiv ed in that time, neatly folded and put away. He says for nearly thirty years he has made it a rule to read the New Testament through once every month, and can quote almost any passage you want, giving book, chapter and verse. He has contributed to the building of churches for other denominations, when called upon, one time giving three acres of land (two more than asked for) to build a Missionary Baptist church on. He anked me to read an article in his paper for him, giving the experience of one of their preachers, and when I was through, the tears were in his eyes and he went on to talk of God’s goodness in sending his Son to die for him. I don’t think 1 ever saw a man in whoso face the love of God shone more bright ly than in his. He seemed weaned completely away from the world, and only waiting for the Master to say, “It is enough, come up higher.” 1 shall never forget the night spent with him and his godly wife. God has blessed him in many ways. He has never had to buy corn but one year in his life, and last year with his little boy just large enough to plow, he made two hundred bushels corn, two bales cotton, three hundred bushels potatoes and 71 gallons of syrup. When I asked what my bill was for staying with him, he said all he charged was a promise to call again if I ever came through there. If the Methodist church was composed of just such men. earnest God-loving, what a work it could do! Dr. Allen would not call for money to help con vert the heathen; men would give free ly of what they had.andChiist’s king dom would soon cover the world. May God awaken in us a deeper zeal, and help us to live up to what we profess, and profess all he requires of us. Physiciaiis use Shriner’s In dian Vermifuge in their practice and pronounce it a first class article. . A trial will convince the most skeptical of its intrinsic merit. Men pray for holiness as if it were something entirely apart from their every day life, something that had nothing at all to do with their conduct in their domestic, social and business relations. “Facts are stubborn things,” and sufferers from chill and fever gener ally find their complaint a very stub born fact, until they commence the use of Ayer’s Ague Cure. That med icine eradicates the noxious poison from the system, and invariably cures even the worst cases.